Charles Brain

South African Paleontologist

Charles Brain is a South African Paleontologist and has studied and taught African cave taphonomy for over fifty years. He is an Honorary Professor of Zoology at the University of the Witwatersrand. Brain has directed comprehensive archaeological study of Swartkrans caves, with more than 200 hominid specimens found, mostly Paranthropus robustus, plus animal fossils, stone and bone tools, remains of Homo ergaster, thought to be predecessor of Homo sapiens.